Operation Manual

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• The "Default Paragraph Font" style comes in handy if you have applied
local formatting but then decide to restore the original text attributes for
the paragraph. (You can think of it as a sort of "Revert to Unaltered Text"
command.) Let's take the above example of a paragraph using the "Body"
style, and suppose several words have been bolded. As noted earlier,
reapplying the "Body" style to the paragraph would not undo the local
bold marking. However, selecting the paragraph and applying the
"Default Paragraph Font" style would set all the text back to regular 10pt
Arial.
• As with paragraph styles, you can define any number of new character
styles using different names and attributes. Custom character styles don't
usually include a specific font name or point size, but there's no rule
against including them.
Working with named styles
The named style of the currently selected text appears in
the Styles box on the Text context toolbar. The box may show a character
style (if one is applied locally); otherwise it indicates the paragraph style. You
can use either the Styles box or a dialog to apply a particular style to existing
text, modify an existing style, or define a new style.
To apply a named style:
1. Using the Pointer tool, click in a paragraph (if applying a paragraph style)
or select a range of text (if applying a character style). If you apply a
paragraph style, it will be applied to the whole paragraph regardless of the
amount of text selected. If you've selected text in more than one
paragraph, the change takes place in all selected paragraphs.
2. Click the down arrow on the Styles box (on the Text context toolbar) and
select the style name in the drop-down list.
OR
Choose Text Style Palette... from the Format menu, select a style name,
and click Apply. The paragraph or selected text takes on the properties of
the named style.